Shit Island is my homage to the island of Amager. Located off the much larger Danish island of Sealand, with which it shared the city of Copenhagen, it has earn its nickname 'shit island' due to it numerous garbage dumps. This is also the island where city workers back before the sewage system would go to dump waste from the latrines of Copenhagen, back before the city became as big, as it is today.

Shit Island has been a place, where gentrification - rampant elsewhere in the city of Copenhagen - has had a hard time gaining a foothold (although that is changing recently).

Its a wonderfully divers place, encompassing everything from dense - often public - housing, huge suburban areas with one-family homes, an international airport, beaches, protected wilderness areas and tiny villages set among fields. Not to mention industrial areas, many of whom have played a part in some of the streets being named Garbage Dump Road and Acid Factory Road.

But first and foremost, its a place inhabited by a colorful mix of characters, many of whom are born and raised on Amager, and hardly never leave the island.

On Shit Island, the old meets new and theres still a sense of space. Space to breath. Space to be different. And space to explore.